# Red Sky Lament

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- Authors: [Edward Wright](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-wright)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2010-06-24

## Description

Set in LA at the time of the McCarthy witchhunts, an evocative thriller set against a backdrop of murder and corruption in Hollywood Los Angeles, late 1940s: all over Hollywood, the U. S. government is ordering people to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee as part of the crusade to uncover Communist influence in the movies. John Ray Horn has little use for politics, but as a former B-movie cowboy star who fell into prison and disgrace, he knows a few things about outsiders. He agrees to help Owen Bruder, a brilliantly talented but notoriously difficult screenwriter accused of having belonged to the Communist Party. If Horn can discover Bruder's secret accuser, they might have a chance to clear his name. But no one is willing to talk. People are scared, in a Hollywood run by fear and suspicion, where a whisper is all it takes to smear an innocent man. As Horn's search leads him to powerful figures in Hollywood, his investigation takes a sudden and deadly turn. And he finds that more people will die before all the secrets are laid bare.

## Editions

### Red Sky Lament

- Publisher: Orion
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0912-457-3
- Published: 2010-06-24
- Language: en_GB